2020 is still far from over but a lot of people think that it’s one of the worst years in recent modern history. So much so that they’re using humor to cope with just how bad things got. People are posting hilarious jokes about 2020 that a lot of us can relate to, and Bored Panda has collected some of the best ones.
Scroll down, upvote your fave 2020 jokes, and share how you’re dealing with all the stress this year, dear Pandas. When you’re done enjoying this list, have a look through our earlier post about people making “my plans vs. 2020” memes.
This year has been a huge challenge so far: Brexit shenanigans ensued, we nearly had WW3, Australia was on fire, the coronavirus pandemic shut down the world, and racial tensions over police brutality in the US reached a breaking point. It’s been rough. But people find that a bit of humor helps keep their spirits up in difficult times. Bored Panda reached out to speak about 2020 memes with comedy writer and comedian Ariane Sherine. Scroll down for our interview with her.
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I only shave once a week now and sometimes not even that.
Load More Replies...Pretty well sums it up. The chart left off bathing. I'm sure it's fallen. LOL
i was so f*cking sure, that this is going to be an awesome year.. well nope..
awesome: extremely impressive or daunting; inspiring great admiration, apprehension, or fear.
Load More Replies...Guys, stop posting fun things! I spat my coffee, again...on my husband, again🤦♀️
Sounds like hubby needs a poncho or raincoat with you around. Add that to the chart why don't you, lol. :)
Load More Replies...OMG that sums it up perfectly! It can keep going that way - I turn 40 on the 16th June lol! Which is in................ F**k knows how many days, dates and days are now totally irrelevant! It all just blends into one biiiiiiiiigggggggg long day in which we just take 'naps' and wake up to the EXACT same s**t!
Comedy writer Ariane told us that her fave jokes this year are "definitely" the "my plans vs. 2020" meme. "It just sums up the craziness of this year so perfectly."
She believes that people will still mention 2020 occasionally in the future. "2016 was also a bad year and people still talk about it. But it [2020] will ll slowly fade from memory and be mentioned less and less."
Ariane thinks that the bad news will continue in 2020. "Sadly, I expect we’ll see second waves of coronavirus deaths. I’d love to see a vaccine but I’m not sure that’s going to happen this year."
After failing first colonoscopy, I was told to try the no fail version. I turned the lights down put on some music and imagined that each Piña Colono, complete with the colorful umbrella was courtesy of the handsome man at table one. Drink #22 Courtesy of the guy in clown suit. I still had about 1/3 left to go when I ran out of umbrellas. Hey! I had not visited the bathroom all night. After consuming enough liquid to fill the bladders of everyone I know, not once did I feel the need to make more I did go before my appointment, but probably only out of habit and morning routine. WTF. I wasted all my little umbrellas on the only bad bottle of what was promised to be the equivalent of Drano, Plumbers Helper and the stuff that's supposed to be tough on grease and take out hair that has been packed into a wad since the wheel was invented? I passed the exam. I never took the Hippocratic oath "First Do No Harm" as doctors do. If I had to come back a third time, I'm harming something.
Or in America's case "BLEACH" according to Mr. Magoo at the White House
Also my response to "Did you hear the stupid thing President Trump said today?"
Yesterday I saw a headline "Trump mocks (so-and-so) on Twitter" and I'm like, how is that different from every other day?
Load More Replies...If he talks about "THE" desaster... the one so big all the others are forgotten beside it... well... sh*t
And covid. You forgot covid. How could you forget covid?
Load More Replies...The disaster happened in 2016. It's just been getting worse ever since.
I love the different facial expressions between the pope and Trump. To be honest, if I had to stand next to Trump that would be my facial expression too.
I would probably pop my eyes out and make sure pictures or video was my witness.
Load More Replies...Looks like Trump just said something stupid, and is proud of it.
Even the idiotic son-in-law has better manners than to smile in a funeral picture.
I don't think it's a funeral. Women are expected to be dressed like that in the Vatican
Load More Replies...I was looking for samara and my eyes went to ivanka coz of her veil XD she really does fit in!
Some of the 2020 jokes are related to us thinking about how we and future generations will look back at this year. While other social media users are joking about how we’re still not even halfway through the year and there are probably lots of messed up things waiting for us in the near future. Like alien invasions and zombie plagues. Or something more serious but just as scary.
Staying positive in 2020 when negative things keep hitting us over and over (and over…) again is easier said than done. However, small changes that you make to your lifestyle can have huge effects.
The fact that the the country rose up to protest the murder of George Floyd -- and protests are happening globally -- proves we have a real chance to end Systemic racism and police brutality!! That is definitely 5 stars!
Childish Gambino goes hard. His stand up is funny too. He was almost black Spider-Man, almost.
The people protesting in the streets brandishing assault weapons were, if I remember correctly, definitely not black. And the police were certainly not having any problems with them gaining entrance into a certain state capitol. But ... What was it that they wanted? Ah, now I remember. Haircuts, of course, haircuts, and no masks. You know, like the ones that protect you from potentially deadly disease, not the other kind, the gas kind. They have them for all the family members, you should just see the cute baby ones with a toy gun pattern, it sooooo cute! *puke*
Yes, i dont remember riot police physically assaulting the I need a hair cut protestors. But have continued to try and prevent peaceful protest from happening by any means necessary. Sad state our country continues to be in.
Load More Replies...He was an awesome Lando Calrissian. Best thing of the Solo movie. And Thandie Newton, of course.
I can't look at the picture on the left without singing "Troy and Abed in the morning" to myself.
How about we name 2020 “the year that must not be named”. Once it is over we never speak of it again.
I am sure the government will remove it from all history books to hide their inefficiency
It's going to be its own textbook. Each month is going to have its own chapter and there there will be additional chapters on the pandemic, Trump, BLM, and at this rate...aliens. I'm just saying, 2020 ain't over yet.
What did people stock up on when locking down enough to cause shortages. Multiple choice: A) food and bottled water B) games/entertainment C) toilet paper D) books and learning materials
Hmmm... Could be A) food and bottled water since we need that to survive or maybe they have that stocked so maybe either games/entertainment or books. C) looks like a gotcha answer, who would buy so much toilet paper. You can't survive or entertain or learn anything from it. Man why this test so hard.
Load More Replies...Are you kidding? Kids will love it because they won't think it's real. I'm still a little hazy on that point, actually.
How about a little reality check? How would you feel if, in addition to Covid and all the disruptions lockdown, unemployment, etc, you would also have to deal with swarms of tens of millions of locusts (https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jun/08/rolling-emergency-of-locust-swarms-decimating-africa-asia-and-middle-east) and the famine that will follow, and then, just for the measure, throw in war on top of it, for those in Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, or Jemen. Or the bushfires in Australia.
There is gonna have to be a different section of the lesson for each freaking part of 2020
I am kind of glad I am going through it, because at least this part of history will be covered for me in my exams! XD
Like taking some time off from social media and the news, brewing yourself a steaming mug of tea, and sitting down with a good book. We all need to recharge; following the news is important but doing it nonstop will lead to burnout and, eventually, apathy.
Getting plenty of movement, some sunshine, lots of rest, and having a good diet are also very important. The world’s always much grimmer when we’re exhausted.
On the other hand, when we’re full of energy, we have all the tools that we need to change the world into a better place. 2020 is far from over but is it going to be like the first half of the year or can we turn this year around? That’s for each and every one of us Pandas to decide.
Can we just go straight to 2021 in hopes it'll be better
Load More Replies...Yeah did you forget Mr. Magoo up in the White House almost started a war with Iran
Load More Replies...July through October you're gonna need a raft to deal with all the hurricanes.
Yep, and I'll always remember that because that was my birthday.
Load More Replies...What is happening in the lower right corner? Is that a guy hiding behind a fort made of cardboard boxes?
How do they know that everything happens for a reason? What is that reason? The world makes a lot more sense if it is likely random and chaotic.
Oh, he's not hiding. He's either still delivering everybody's late Christmas presents, or he's delivering the shipments of the coronavirus vaccines. The USPS is......sad? Where you been!?
We're getting the remnants of a tropical depression in the midwest, only the 4th time that has happened. Just... seriously what the hell.
Because Houston is tired of dealing with them. You're welcome.
Load More Replies...In Australia there has just been multiple hurricanes and hail 😣😣😣😩😩🌨️🌨️⛈️⛈️
Oh it's not going to kill us. It's just going to make us wish we were dead.
Load More Replies...Before you two, please give the dinosaurs a chance to wreak a bit of havoc... Then come in together...
poor aliens are not ready for what will come to them I'm sure an océan of people would throw them out the spaceship to escape the Earth...I would for sure
I thought goats or chickens would takeover. (P.S. now I remember maybe the whole farm or wolves will takeover, but I'm still with what i wrote before.)
Lmao the Davey six toes comment is spot on! I can almost see it sheepishly submerging back into it's lake
Of course it would come now. We need ghosts to add to the hornets, protests, riots, plague, etc.
* Newsflash * portal to hell opens up, people fail to notice due to all the other c**p going on. Satan and his horde last seen sheepishly returning to the underworld muttering something about "Its no fun like this". While pulling closed the dread portal.
Load More Replies...You should be sacked, as comic book guy would say WORST.MOVIE.EVER.
Killed a ton of characters, horrible things happening, want it all to end, yet the end never comes? Sounds about right.
That's good, but I've heard that the script for the next year is written by George Orwell.
2020: You'll put your eyes out! You'll put your eyes out! Bawahaha! No, seriously, try and enjoy your coffee. You'll put your eyes out.
"Many scholars have pieced together information from this civilization based on its records and artifacts..."
Yes, and some of the stories seem more and more relevant.
Load More Replies...That reminds me, we should really start the cave drawing just in case.
And with the money we saved from canceling our trip, my parents have decided to get the house remodeled-while I'm still stuck at home with them.
Maybe you can persuade them that letting a bunch of workers into the house may not be the best idea right now?
Load More Replies...So, it is hearing the fat lady sing vs you becoming the fat lady, who sing at kitchen.
One positive thing (but sadly after seeing atrocious acts of injustice towards innocent people) I learned is that we have a voice and that we can do something about the racism and injustice by supporting eachother, even with adversaries like Trump and his racist gang, we can make a change by holding on. Secondly, even with social distancing, you can become closer as a community. A third positive note is that hundreds of millions of people have been saved due to lockdown measures. I hope you're all doing well and that you're safe!
B*TCH NO-ONE WANTS TO READ A COMMENT A LONG AS THAT IF IT ISN"T A FUNNY ONE SO SHUT THE F*CK UP
No Lichtenstein can only allow 50 people in because of social distancing
Load More Replies...That minesweeper grid is wrong btw Lol, may be that's part of the challenge
Good to see that there are others like me who actually tries to solve it
Load More Replies...There's a pair of number somewhere around Switzerland that is suspicious. A four is next to a one, and only two more fields for the four - these numbers can't be both correct. It's a trap. The mines are everywhere.
I wish I was a time traveler so I can travel back in time and tell the public about covid-19
is there a name for the phenomen, that we all feel like the march was extra long and april and may just went over in like seconds?
I entered grade school in the 60s when kids were taught that sex was a mortal sin. Attended high school in the 70 when virginity was considered a sign of frigidity. 80s: secular humanism declared a religion. 90s my three best friends died of HIV. 2000s could no longer sort out which financial crisis was THE crisis.
Awwww! Da wittle turtle is so coot! (I know this is completely unrelated but I had to say it)
It's like, the extroverts have always taken the lead over us introverts. But now, with quarantine, we (introverts) are leading and taking care of them.
Load More Replies...People dressed like that in 2019? Pants that wide were late 90s early 00s, surely.
I would literally call my friends and then they would sneak in the house when no one was home during online school.
As far as we can imagine. There is always a worse.
Load More Replies...Lays is now working on the 2021 second wave flavor / cranberry sauce and milk...
Just don't give them ideas. You know what happens when people are looking for fresh new ideas.
Yeah, look what happened with all the Coke flavors!
Load More Replies...2020 history is going to read like a kindergartner’s attempt at fiction. “Um, so first an entire continent was on fire. But then there was this disease, and everyone forgot about that. So then the whole world had to stay home. And school was cancelled for the year. And a bunch of people got real mad about stuff. And, um....um...BAM! Murder hornets!”
And there was this guy on the TV who had tigers, and everyone watched him. And that was just the first half!
Load More Replies...You know what's hilarious though? Schools normally try to teach about the culture of the time they're learning about. I really wanna see some history text books with memes in them.
Too bad it isn't a black sharpie. We'd all rather forget this year happened.
2020 will need its own 26 volume set of Encyclopedias and should become it own History course. That is once we have recovered and decide to acknowledge it again.
This meme is a lie.....we all know they’ll have to make a whole separate text book for 2020
Why would they? This is what they've spent their whole lives preparing for.
My favorite is when they get so tangled in their stupid theories, that new ones undo old ones and they don't even realize it. There are people who believe 5G is a worldwide conspiracy to weaken our immune systems and spread covid 19. The problem with that is those same people also say covid 19 is a hoax being used to control us. Umm dumbasses, they can't both be true. Pro tip: neither is true.
my whole friend group has a fraction of the conspiracy friend in them
They’re the ones who bragged they could live for months in their bunkers, but after a week they were demanding that they be able to get a haircut.
you spelled maybe wrong it's spelled...well just like that
Load More Replies...butt... its probably in my opinion it was about new years that it got horrible
don't jinx us! (I mean, anymore than we already are :P)
Load More Replies...Yeah - radioactive tornadoes, a supervolcano going off, rabid velociraptors, Klingon invasion--
People just need to STFU and stop tempting the fates to make things worse.
I think I would have rather had zombies than the coronavirus, at least we would have all had a fighting chance and could have actually taken out our frustrations on actual zombies!!!!
We are in the zombie apocalypse... all the people who support trump, don’t wear masks, and ignore covid are all brain dead zombies
In my town up in Maine when there are severe thunderstorms on the way, they ring the firehouse bells. I was never told about it and thought the purge was starting, it's the creepiest thing I've ever heard. If I heard that at 3 am I'd lose my mind and hide under the bed thinking there was a tornado, tsunami, zombie apocalypse, purge, or hurricane coming
And they have done their job well!!! Although this virus has been deadly, the media has amped it up so much that it's affecting everyone from paranoia, depression, etc...
yes make us feel like the worlds going to end while trump is in charge and with biden obama and the clintons make us feel safe even though they were destroying the country behind our backs great job media 👍
He should play DN3D. I feel like the freeze ray might actually help right now.
honestly I don't think he is that bad its all better with video games!!
Unfortunately the dog she was strangling while calling the cops, that was a rescue and that had been taken from her following this event has been given back to her...
BOTH the man and the dog were horribly mistreated by her. She deserves to be punished for calling the cops on him (which could have resulted in his death) AND for abusing her dog. I can't believe that the shelter gave the dog back to her - that's horrible!
Load More Replies...There are not enough cuss words in any vocabulary to describe this b**** (no insult to my canine friends and relatives.)!
As b***h is an everyday word when used to describe a dog I don't think you should worry about typing it out fully. It's quite mild as swear words go.
Load More Replies...Azkhaleesi no. Your SIL is blind or in denial. Every black person may not be "abused" but life is not "what you make it" for everyone.
Fun fact: the harassed birdwatcher wrote some of the first queer characters for Marvel Comics and is on the board of the NYC chapter of the Audubon Society. His name is Christian Cooper.
Am I the only person who has no idea what this is about despite reading all the comments? I think I get the gist but presume it happened in America where everyone knows about it
Panda to nobody you have a lot to learn about life. Why did his race matter? How about saying there is a man here and I'm scared, if that was the case. She's so obviously racist. Its why she got fired and on top of that she was also hurting and strangling her own dog. Terrible. Not a good look. Bye Felicia.
we will never tell this story. if we did...that would be the longest bedtime story EVER
Treat it like the birds and the bees... only talk about it in private or an appropriate environment.
Please let that be a typo, please let that be a typo, PLEASE LET THAT BE A TYPO..!!!!!!
Most people actually think that's what it's called because of the fact that it mostly happened in 2020
Sleep for another 6 months please. YOu dont want to know
Load More Replies...You don't want to know. Let me put you back into an induced coma and we'll wake you up in 6 months from now!!!
"Ma'am, it's not usual medical policy, but if you'd like to sign here we can put you back under until circumstances are more under control..."
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Or whatever is going to hit us in the second half of 2020. This is already an annus mirabilis - more like A**S mirabilis!
Load More Replies...Wait, does that mean the PowerPuff Girls are about to save us from the Evil Dodo Trumpo that was born from the same accident?
202 IS THE TRIFECTA of disasters in the FIRST stinkin' quarter of the damn year!
No, but hopefully at least something is left over for posterity.
Load More Replies...Mandalorians don't have respirators... they have weapons and body armor... just like the police.
Seriously, earthquakes have been increasing in NV along the fault lines around Yellowstone. So, yeah.
I have questions about the shoes, rest seems normal. What kind shoes are these LEGO/Dutch clogs crossovers?
2020: The Movie- Normal Is Weird; Weird Is Normal
Load More Replies...I'm trying to understand what I'm looking at, but the more I look the more questions I have
What if this is just the first year of an incredibly s****y decade. Trump gets reelected and pardons Tiger King and Benie Madoff.
And gives the Medal of Freedom to Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Load More Replies...Recently I saw a yard sign that read "What a year this week has been." Indeed!
Well, if it's South Park there should be some moral with a decent positive ending.
We're all going to get trapped into a Groundhog Day situation until 2020 figures itself out.
Like the Raining spiders in Brazil? Actually, now to think about it, I remember watching a film theory episode implying that a sharknado is possible in LA… luckily, I live 5290 miles away in Wales… which had raining fish in 2004…
After you get through all the foam, you find out its non-alcoholic beer.
I haven't had one of those, but it feels like a necessary move now
Load More Replies...You know the corona virus doesn't disappear just because you start rioting. In fact...
Giant hornets, fire, virus....seriously finish this flipping jumanji game whoever's playing
Yeah. Other than empathy. I don't know how much the aid dollars helped.
Load More Replies...Protests are a response to police brutality and hundreds of years of systemic racism. Reframing your statement “This meme was made before yet again another senseless murder by police that inspired the protests for justice” would be better said.
Load More Replies...Umm, "Killer Bees" have been here for a couple of decades already. It's the Murder Hornets that are new...
At this point, anything is expected. UFOs are far from the most terrifying thing that could happen next.
Load More Replies...That's a good thing in 2020. I don't know much about this guy, but what I do know is he's a loser man-child.
All I know is that there are two brothers, one of whom shot a video in the Japanese suicide forest and the other made life Hell for his neighbors. I'm not sure which is which.
Load More Replies...You are absolutely right. As if the original wasnt disgusting enough.
Load More Replies...Because if he was white this wouldn't have happened. That's literally the issue.
Load More Replies...I think it's precious how some people think we're going to make it to 2021.
but what if 2021 is the same as 2020? and 2023 and 2024?IT WILL BE OUR DOOM
One way 2021 could be an improvement on 2020 is for the U.S. to get a new President.
Here's the actual article in which the scientist interviewed stated that violence in the US, including riots and lynchings, peaks at 50 year cycles, which was predicted to be 2020: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8gvbg5/2012-is-b******t-2020-is-when-well-really-be-in-trouble-fob-0003000-v19n10
Started the year without phones being allowed in school... only in Australia
i'd say horror with a tad more drama and a huge bit of horror
I have read in more than one place that the second wave of the Spanish Flu was deadlier than the first.
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Glad I wasn't the only one that saw this. Each was also around the same time of a large war. War of 1812 and WWI. Just waiting now.
Geologists debate whether or not the Yellowstone Supervolcano is really fixing to erupt. Earthquake storms are not all that rare.
No- 1 minute past- you think it's over but then- tutorial..
Load More Replies...Nah, we'll be writing on slate tablets with sharpened charcoal sticks.
Load More Replies...https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/anime-girl-hiding-from-a-terminator
Load More Replies...Enough talk about Yellowstone! Every time you ask how things could get worse, they do.
If 2020 was a fortune cookie, it'd be the Chinese-restaurant scene in "It."
Nazi's are up, food delivery and gaming becomes most popular pass times, school is canceled, people looting for free stuff. Yeah, it just might have been.
Load More Replies...Can you imagine how we will look back on this insane-in-all-the-wrong-ways year?
I had thought that I am glad I gave up smoking, otherwise I would be a Chain Smoker by now.
I think I might start taking these things more seriously from now on...
To be fair, sorting through old articles allows for a lot of cherry-picking, making it look like they were prescient. Just ignore the ones about Elvis coming back, aliens visiting the White House, etc.
This happened in my sophomore yearbook. A guy had two different pictures of himself in the class grid, one with his name spelled right and the other incorrectly.
When I heard about radioactive forest fires, I didn't even worry. Just, yeah, sounds about right. 2020 has screwed up my priorities.
Duhn Duhn Duhn! Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang, and although his airbending skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone. But I believe Aang can save the world.
Only 2021 could save everyone. But, when the world needed them the most, she vanished.
Before seeing the caption I thought this was Mad Max Fury Road. Sounds about right.
No joke, my neighborhood has three community pools in it. All three are now open and I see people there everyday. I don't wish death on any, but maybe sterilization.
I heard the virus can't survive a properly chlorinated pool. But of course you still have to not sneeze on people.
Load More Replies...I was looking at these and thinking about the Shark Attack fatalities lately.
Nope because that can easily be fixed by plugging it in, nothings gonna fix 2020.
You're stand up to plug it in, then the plug impales your foot. THATS 2020.
Load More Replies...the whoever is playing has HORRIBLE luck with dice, and the dungeon master hates everyone at the table
Load More Replies...In the game Dungeons & Dragons most things are decided by dice rolls, usually with a 20 sided die. Rolling a 20 tends to be a cause for celebration, while a roll of 1 usually means sh*t just hit the fan.
Load More Replies...what if 2020 was karma to all the shitty people that ever existed
I have never played but I feel bad for the d&d ers who have to do zooms now
January 1st this year there was a huge spider on the floor at the bottom of the stairs when my husband and I woke up and went down for breakfast. We’re both arachnophobic. It took hours to muster up the courage to slip past it to get the vacuum and take it out. I told my husband this was not a good start of the year and we should just skip 2020. He laughed. Guess I was right though...
For some reason 2020 has been my best year in my life. All of the other years I was sick most of the time or crying cuz I had no friends.
ahh, memes. my only reason to get up in the morning. probably also the only reason i've stayed sane in quarantine.
I was supposed to finally get my glasses off this year! But N O P E
January 1st this year there was a huge spider on the floor at the bottom of the stairs when my husband and I woke up and went down for breakfast. We’re both arachnophobic. It took hours to muster up the courage to slip past it to get the vacuum and take it out. I told my husband this was not a good start of the year and we should just skip 2020. He laughed. Guess I was right though...
For some reason 2020 has been my best year in my life. All of the other years I was sick most of the time or crying cuz I had no friends.
ahh, memes. my only reason to get up in the morning. probably also the only reason i've stayed sane in quarantine.
I was supposed to finally get my glasses off this year! But N O P E
